Characteristics of the Romantic Period in William Wordsworth’s poem “Tintern Abbey.” Tintern Abbey is a poem written by William Wordsworth, a British romantic poet born in 1770 and died in 1850. The full title of this poem is “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798.” (p. 190) The poem evokes nature, memory and basically all the characteristics of the romantic period. Throughout Wordsworth’s work nature ultimately provides good influence on the human mind. All manifestations of the natural world elicit noble, elevated thoughts and passionate emotions that are seen in the people who observe them. Wordsworth repeatedly emphasizes the importance of nature to an individual’s intellectual and spiritual development. A good relationship with nature helps individuals connect to both the spiritual and the social worlds. Thus in Tintern Abbey, the subject of this essay, one finds the characteristics described above. The poem opens with the statement that five years have passed since Wordsworth last visited this location, the Banks of the Wye, encountered its tranquil, rustic scenery, and heard the murmuring waters of the river. Wordsworth recites the objects he sees again, and describes their effect upon him: the “steep and lofty cliffs” impress upon him “thoughts of more deep seclusion”; he leans against the dark sycamore tree and looks at the cottage-grounds and the orchard trees, whose fruit is still unripe.(p.190, lines 5,6,7)) He sees the “wreaths of smoke” rising up from cottage chimneys between the trees, and imagines that they might rise from “vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,” or from the cave of a hermit in the deep forest. Wordsworth then describes how his memory of these “beauteous forms” has worked upon him in his absence from them: when he was alone, or in crowded towns and cities, they provided him with “sensations sweet, / Felt in the...

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...WilliamWordsworth's "TinternAbbey" celebrates imagination and emotion over rationality and reason, and intuition over science. It is the beginning of English Romanticism in the 1800's and Wordsworth was one of the leading poets of that era. He introduced the readers to grasp nature and fully appreciate all aspects of it. "TinternAbbey" focuses on Wordsworth's nostalgic experience on returning to the Abbey, but pays much attention to the poem's theme of emotional beauty and nature. In this poem, the reader finds Wordsworth's intense and loving memory of natural scenes.
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...Past, Present, and Future: Finding Life Through Nature
William Wordsworth poem &#8220;Lines Composed a Few Miles above TinternAbbey&#8221; was included as the last item in his Lyrical Ballads. The general meaning of the poem relates to his having lost the inspiration nature provided him in childhood. Nature seems to have made Wordsworth human.The significance of the abbey is Wordsworth&#8217;s love of nature. TinternAbbey representes a safe haven for Wordsworth that perhaps symbolizes a everlasting connection that man will share with it&#8217;s surroundings. Wordsworth would also remember it for bringing out the part of him that makes him a &#8220;A worshipper of Nature&#8221; (Line 153).
Five different situations are suggested in "Lines" each divided into separate sections. The first section details the landscape around the abbey, as Wordsworth remembers it from five years ago. The second section describes the five-year lapse between visits to the abbey, during which he has thought often of his experience there. The third section specifies Wordsworth&#8217;s attempt to use nature to see inside his inner self. The fourth section shows Wordsworth exerting his efforts from the preceding stanza to the landscape, discovering and remembering the refined state of mind the abbey provided him with. In the final section,...

...How TINTERNABBEY evolves from beginning to end is in a truly reflective state upon
the five years that had passed since he had last visited the ruins of the abbey. The ruin
of the abbey, perhaps can be compared to the aging of man and the inevitably of aging,
however, the abbey still stands as does natutre and its eternal splendor. The poem
starts immediately with an adjective, "rolling" referring to the waters coming down from
the mountain springs which do not disturb the "murmur" of the river: "These waters,
rolling from their mountain-springs/With a sweet murmur." (3-4). The gentle, quietness
of the river Wye which Wordworth adored and the visual picture of the rolling of the
water from the mountain springs give the reader a feeling of serenity.
The tone of the poem is calm and mediative and Wordsworth describes the "landscape"
and compares it to the "quiet" of the sky: "The landscape with the quiet of the sky."(8).
The plots of land surrounding his dear land are lovingly described with the color, green.
He gives the woods an almost human personality with the use of the verb, "run"in line l7;
"Of sportive wood run wild; these paastoral farms" (l7). The life of the woods surrounding
the Abbey are almost given human like qualities in order to show how man is and must
be part of nature.
In the third stanza of the poem his tone...

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TinternAbbey: Seeing into the Life of Things What does Wordsworth see when he 'sees into the life of things?'; Remember that in the lines leading up to his portrayal of the 'blessed mood'; that gives him sight, Wordsworth has been pointing to the power of human memory and reflection. And the importance of memory and reflection are made plain by the shifting time perspectives in the poem. The poem begins with the speaker on the banks of the Wye for the first time in five years. At first the poet emphasizes the way in which his present experience is similar to that of five years ago. More than once he tells us that 'again'; he has certain experiences in this secluded spot, a place that is evidently a refuge for him. He then tells how he has though of 'these beauteous forms' at many difficult times since he was last at this spot, five years before. At these moments, his recollections of his time on the banks of the Wye seems to lift his spirits and restore him. He then points to what might, at first glance, seem to be impossible: 'unremembered pleasures.'; How can it make sense to say that we recall 'unremembered pleasures';? If they are unremembered, how can we be thinking about them? This strange phrase might point to some vague pleasant experience in the past, one that we cannot clearly name. But it could also mean that we can now remember pleasures that previously not only unremembered but actually...

...WORDSWORTH’S TREATMENT OF
NATURE IN RELATION TO MAN IN
TINTERNABBEY
In his Preface to The Excursion, Wordsworth asserts that it is the ‘Mind of Man’ which is ‘My haunt, and the main region of my song’. Wordsworth is interested not in the natural world for its own sake but in the relationship between the natural world and the human consciousness. His poetry, therefore, offers us a detailed account of the complex interaction between man and nature—of the influences, insights, emotions and sensations which arise from this interaction—rather than a precise observation of natural phenomena. When a natural object is depicted, it is usually apparent to us that the main focus of interest is the response of a human being (almost always Wordsworth himself) to that object. Indeed, one of the most consistent concepts in Wordsworth is the idea of the interpenetration of man and nature. Man, in Wordsworth’s poetry, does not exist outside nature; he is inseparably linked with nature by a common spiritual bond of unity and he is an active participant in it. Consequently, ‘nature’ to Wordsworth means something that encompasses both inanimate and human nature—each is a part of the same whole. The moments of vision that are the source of some of Wordsworth’s best poetry occur when he has a heightened sense of this unity. At such moments, he responds not to forms, shapes and colours of natural objects but to an inner...

...William Wordsworth existed in a time when society and its functions were beginning to rapidly pick up. The poem that he &#8220;Composed a Few Miles Above TinternAbbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye&#8230;&#8221; gave him a chance to reflect upon his quick paced life by taking a moment to slow down and absorb the beauty of nature that allows one to &#8220;see into the life of things&#8221; (line 49). Wordsworth&#8217;s &#8220;TinternAbbey&#8221; takes you on a series of emotional states by trying to sway &#8220;readers and himself, that the loss of innocence and intensity over time is compensated by an accumulation of knowledge and insight.&#8221; Wordsworth accomplishes to prove that although time was lost along with his innocence, he in turn was able to gain an appreciation for the aesthetics that consoled him by incorporating all together, the wonders of nature, his past experiences, and his present mature perception of life.
Wordsworth begins his poem by describing the landscape of the abbey as unchanged during the past five years. He emphasizes the lapse of time by stating, &#8220; again I hear&#8221;, &#8220;again do I behold&#8221;, and &#8220;again I see&#8221;. He seemed to be overwhelmed with emotions that he, though up on a very far away cliff, was certain that a hermit was in his cave sitting by the fire alone. Wordsworth wanted so much...

...Wordsworth’spoems initiated the Romantic era by emphasizing feeling, instinct, and pleasure above the formality and mannerism of the preceding neo-classical style. The themes that run through Wordsworth’s poetry and the language and imagery he uses to embody those themes remain consistent throughout most of his works. One of the loveliest and most famous in the Wordsworth canon “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” which addresses the familiar subjects of nature and memory with a particularly simple musical eloquence. Other of his works express these themes in a more complex manner, such as “TinternAbbey” a monologue which references a specific landscape that the speaker gains access to through the recollection his past experiences with the scene. Although different in structure, both poems embody strong romantic ideals through the use of clever poetry techniques and conventions, with a repeated emphasis on the importance of nature to an individual’s intellectual and spiritual development.
As Romantic poet, Wordsworth had a strong affinity towards the rebellion against the industrial revolution and strove to revert back to the “bliss” of nature. His fascination with the natural world was not so much to do with nature itself, but rather the “divine” power it encompasses and its relationship with the human consciousness. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"...

...Romanticperiod? -William Blake
Nowadays when people talked about “romantic” or “romance”, usually indicated that of the opposite of ration and reason. Rousseau pointed out that romance is to go back to nature, However, Heine in the other way thought that romance is to go back to the life style of middle age, while Hugo considered romance as the combination of tragedy and quaintness.
Romance to me, is the opposite of civilization, ration, and reality, just like the typical tension between passion and ration displayed in Madame Bovery, the protagonist Madame Bovery had life struggles between pursuing her dreams and passion and living an ordinary life with a dull husband. It was also a struggle between love and bread. Actually, the word romance is hard to define.
Rene Wellek conceded that there are three dimensions of romantic criterion, which are imagination, nature and symbol and myth, based on this three aspects of looking at romance, we can probably sum up all kinds of romance. There are a lot of definition of romance in dictionary, such as some of the definition mentioned in J.A. Cuddon’s A Dictionary of Literary Terms, which are interests on natural elements, and primal, natural, uncivilized world, inclination of focus on scenery, intertwining the human spirit to the natural world, and attention on imagination. And of course, praising the noble savages.
Romantic era...

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